Paper experimentation

As I see my practice mainly based in paper I decided it would be beneficial to experiment with this material, I collected all different types from recycled, thick, thin, different coloured, different textures, and decided to print on them with a detailed image that could show what qualities the paper had as shown below. 

I stuck to neutral tones and found that I liked the texture of the 'velum' paper which is second to the left as it has watercolour paper qualities, not to mention the tactile qualities of the paper. Colour-wise the recycled paper was just off white, I found this worked well and still kept the detail of the image. The printer paper at the University definitely gives the image more definition and picks up on all the details and gives the image a glossy finish, which I believe works well.  Investigating the Paper gallery made me think of my audience and who Paper Gallery are drawing and designing for. So far my work as been quite abstract and has been for more of a fine art  context, however I don't see myself as a fine art practitioner.

I see this part being the development stage of my work that will then inform where my practice goes. The only thing I can determine so far is that my work is for more of a marginal audience then a mainstream, due to the complex ideas and reasoning behind how my work is created. It is very conceptual like the work of Gosia Wlodarczak who looks closely at existence through drawing. 

untitled Gosia Wlodarczak